In the present context of environmental care, the reduction of resource consumption (energy and materials) is an important goal in the conception of new processes. Wastewater treatment plants are quite involved in this trend and because of this, we have devised this symposium with the title New technologies and approaches for wastewater sanitation. The idea is to design wastewater treatment using a holistic approach, prioritizing resource recovery and minimizing resource consumption.
The symposium is divided into three parts. The first, in which the general principles of the sustainable sanitation will be exposed, the second, dealing with the recovery of resources and the third, devoted to new technologies associated with reduced consumptions. All this carried out by leading European scientists in this field.
Dr. Joan Mata Álvarez
Symposium Coordinator
Symposium WWTP 21: New technologies and approaches for wastewater sanitation
Date: 8th October 2014
Schedule: from 9:00 h to 18:30 h
Place: Aula Magna, Faculty of Economics and Business, UB
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Symposium Language: English
FINAL PROGRAM
09.00 h OPENING SESSION
Manuel Viladevall
Vice-Rector for Teaching Staff. UB
Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua. UB
Ma. Jesús Montoro
Director of Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua. UB
Joan Mata
Symposium Coordinator
Institut de Recerca de l’Aigua. UB
SESSION I: The future of WWTP. Charman: Joan Mata, Universitat de Barcelona
09.15 h New Sanitation for resource recovery
Grietje Zeeman
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
10.00 h Rethinking the sewage treatment plant
Juan Lema
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
10.30 h Congreso Eco-STP 2014: Evaluation and conclusions
Alexandra Jelic
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
11.00 h Pausa
11.30h SESSION II: Resource Recovery. Chairman: Francisco Lucena, Universitat de Barcelona
12.00 h Carbon-to-biopolymers recovery in municipal wastewater treatment plants
Francesco Fatone
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
12.30 h Low energy demand in water treatment: Concept and scientific challenge
Marc Héran
Université Montpellier 2, France
13.00 h Microbial electrosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide from WWTP into valuable products
Jesus Colprim
Universitat de Girona
13.30 h Pausa
15.30 h SESSION III New tecnologies in STP. Chairman: Miquel Salgot, Universitat de Barcelona
15.30 h A Knowledge-based Decision Support Tool For Selecting Eco-Wastewater Treatment Technologies
Quim Comas
Universitat de Girona
16.00 h Microbial Electrochemical Technologies and wastewater: changing the WWP paradigma
Abraham Esteve
Universidad de Alcalá
16.30 h Forward Osmosis The new way to make drinking water
Joan Llorens
Universitat de Barcelona
17.00 h Two-step Partial nitritation/Anammox process in granulation reactors: Operation and microbial characterization
Joan Dosta
Universitat de Barcelona
Joaquim Vila
Universitat de Barcelona
17.30 h INDUSTRIAL PANEL DISCUSSION. Chairman: Eduardo Ayesa, CEIT, San Sebastián
J.J. Malfeito, Acciona Agua
F. Rogalla, Aqualia
A. Gali, Aqualogy
J. Sanz, Veolia Water Technologies
18.30 h End of symposium